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With today being the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, I have a piece up today on the mainpage concerning how Obama and company tout how Mitt Romney wouldn’t have given the order to raid bin Laden’s compound while at the same time negotiating with the Taliban and declaring the War on Terror to be over.
Prior to writing the article, I had seen Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes interview with Jose Rodriguez, the former CIA Director of Clandestine Operations. I wanted to work it into my piece but I just didn’t have the room. Nevertheless, the interview is worth commenting upon in its own right. Consider this question Stahl asked about the treatment 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed received at the hand of CIA interrogators:
Stahl: Did you make him wear diapers?
Rodriguez: Diapers? I don’t recall specifically. But diapers is something that is approved.
Stahl: It’s so humiliating.
Rodriguez: It’s standard. Standard. Yeah.
When Stahl admonishes Rodriguez for humiliating KSM it’s as if she’s taking a teacher to task for being too hard on a third grader. Her grandmotherly tone made me think she wanted offer KSM milk and cookies to make him feel better.
For his part, Rodriguez wisely reminded Stahl that this was the man who killed Daniel Pearl:
He slit his throat in front of a camera. I don’t know what type of man it takes to cut the throat of someone in front of you like that, but I can tell you that this is an individual who probably didn’t give a rat’s ass about having water poured on his face.
As Rodriguez was saying this, a look of sadness came over Stahl’s face. She closed her eyes and tightened her jaw. I don’t know if she knew Daniel Pearl personally but it was only at that moment that she seemed to comprehend the vicious nature of KSM. Aside from that moment however, Stahl was full of the sort of sanctimony that has come to exemplify 60 Minutes and the mainstream media at large.
What is so troubling about Stahl’s sanctimony is that if she were to offer KSM milk and cookies he would thank her by doing to her what he did to Daniel Pearl.
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David W| 5.1.12 @ 4:38PM
A lot of these liberals live in a bubble. Occasionally they can be reminded that these people they feel so sorry for are cold blooded murderers.
RJ| 5.1.12 @ 5:10PM
Absolutely true. So many liberals are in the ivory tower, away from "real life." Maybe someday they will realize how utterly silly they are to many of us. Lesley is worried about humiliating a vicious murderer by having him wear diapers? He deserves the humiliation and much, much more.
Brendan| 5.3.12 @ 10:06AM
I disagree. Her sadness was for the poor, benighted, Rodriguez. It was at that moment that she realized that she could not save his soul, and that he was lost forever to the liberal mindset. I'm sure she had a La Raza intervention team all set to go, and knew at that point it wouldn't work.
We need more men like Jose Rodriguez.
Richard Baker| 5.1.12 @ 6:20PM
Stahl showed her immaturity during that interview. Ensure, diapers, and the rest of the intel activities utilized have kept her and others like her safe from absolute barbarians. Orwellian? She needs to read ''1984" and note how Big Brother turned Winston Smith.
Bob Grant| 5.1.12 @ 7:24PM
She's too busy with Two Minutes Hate.
alyans | 5.1.12 @ 7:03PM
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alyans | 5.1.12 @ 7:04PM
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Ron Hudson| 5.1.12 @ 9:37PM
Leslie Stahl is so stupid she dose not know what she is talking about. We fed Insure to our 100 year old mother because she was not eating correctly. They have insure for children.
She should give up her position as an "investigative reporter. She is no more than a puppet for Obama" She does not realize how much she made her self look like a bigger fool than she is.
Pecos Pete| 5.2.12 @ 6:41AM
I thought Jose Rodriguez came across as a patriot concerned about the survival of the United States.
His comment that killing terrorists is preferred (by the current administration) to capturing them was a very telling point.
Richard Baker| 5.2.12 @ 11:39AM
Pete:
You sorta have to wonder about the Messiah's pre-occupation with killing every terrorist leader and denying us the possible intel. Dead men tell no tales. It's not as if we don't know how to snatch and grab a single individual. The SEALs in Vietnam did it often and in a hut filled with sleeping soldiers. You know, everyone wakes up in the morning and Tran is GONE.